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0 pointsmelenaboija4y ago0 comments

Also is even painful to me to think about frivolities and how people spend money when seeing things like this.

“Lamborghini had its most profitable year ever during the coronavirus pandemic”[1]

Each of this cars may be something like 5 years of average salary in US.

[1] https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/lamborghini-had-its-m...

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Surely the much smaller individual sums spent on something like Xbox consoles is far greater in the aggregate than a few Lambos?

As soon as you get into rating the worthiness of a spend it becomes a bit puritanical.

The ironic thing is that I mostly agree with you, but judging others ‘wasted’ spend is too slippery a slope to go down.

melenaboijaOP4y ago

Yup, I agree with you too and to me the slippery part is to talk about ratios.

Definitely absolute values have a meaning to me, otherwise would not make sense to talk about billionaires and non billionaires and a better classification would be starving and non starving people.

claudiulodro4y ago

Interestingly according to the above article, Lamborghini had $1.93B in revenue on 7430 cars, while it appears XBox had total hardware revenue of $2.29B in 2020. A handful of Lambos does seem to be worth thousands of consoles!

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